The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-01-13

the day now set apart by the Ola
Pioneer Association of Dallas county
as its anniversary.
In November, 1916, party of
J Indians raided the upper part of
the county, stole considerable
number of horses and retired. They
were pursued by 22 men, overtaken
near where Decatur now stands,
defeated, their chief killed by Capt.
Preston with bowie knife,
and the horses recaptured. Details
must be omitted in this and other
matters.
Thenceforward, passing over the
contests with the Peters Colony Com
pany about headlight grants of land,
which were finally settled to the sat
isfaction of both sides, the growth of
Dallas County was steady till the war
began in 1861. After two or three
elections Dallas had become the
County seat, and in 81 stood as n
prosperous village of solid citizens.
The county was almost unit on the
Southern side, and during the four
years struggle sent to the front
nearly every available man, including
many boys down to fifteen years of
age. 1t furnished Colonies b. War
rem Stone Nicholas r. Darnell, Nat
NJ. Burford, T. G. Hampe, Geo. W.
Guess, and large contingent in the
regiment of each Lieut. Colonels
John II. Colt, Grill Miller, and many
officers of lesser rank. Half of Goods
battery, commanded by John j.
Good
The war closed, but great numbers
of the men did not return. Poverty,
bleeding hearts and more or | ess des-
olation confronted those who did re-
turn. Lowering clouds increased the
general gloom
Let the curtain fall till the 10th
day Of July, 1872, when the whistles
of the first railway greeted Dallas,
and the people gave an old-fashioned
barbecue. Hope, long deferred,
quickened the peoples pulsations.
In the next year came the second
continental road, reaching for the
great plains of the West and the
shores of the Pacific In January,
1874, the last vestige of reconstruc-
ton passed to the rear, the curtain
was rolled on high to fall no more,
and an era Of fraternity and good
feeling, born of the better nature of
man, pecame II living reality, DIES
tined, ere thirteen years should roll
by, to transform everything around
and about us, from small village
and Il population in the entire county
of about 1900, into city, including
its suburbs, of from thirty to thirty
five thousand inhabitants, and in the
entire county of probably llfty-6ve to
sixty thousand souls, drawn, with
their muscles, their skill and their
capital from every quarter of the
Union and partly from Europe. 1t is
a living truth to-day that large num-
bers of our farmer "enemies in wal"
with their capital, skill and enter
prise, are our friends in peace
our neiohbors co-workers and hon
ored fellow-citizens.
This combination Of agencies,
in locality surrounded by !
a country of immense ag-
ricultural capabilities and other in
herent advantages, is what, within
these few years, has largely made
Dallas an anomaly in the march of
communities from moral village life
to that oil a city teeming with indus
try and industrial enterprises, giant
commercial houses, manufacturing
establishments, educational facilities,
newspapers and periodicals, supple
mented by churches, nearly three
hundred in number and various other
institutions, which olive and move
and have their being in charity. To
these may be added the bar, able and
honorable, and a medical corps justly
distinguished for learning and wis
dom.
To-day Dallas has in active opera
ton railways radiating in nine direc-
lions, with three more under course
of construction. This sufficiently
suggests a gigantic commerce. The
needful capital to their construction !